December is Anniversary Month

December is the month for Anniversaries in our family. It's the month that Ricky and I celebrate our Wedding Anniversary and our 1st Anniversary as home owners. This past Weekend Ricky and I celebrated our 3rd Anniversary. Ricky surprised me by telling me that I needed to dress-up and that Brooklyn was going to have a sleepover with her grandparents. He ended up bringing me to a really nice restaurant (that you have to make reservations to go to) called III Forks and he had beautiful flowers waiting for me at our table. We really enjoyed the food and each others company.

We also have enjoyed being first time home owners. We have painted almost every room in our house so far and we have added little touches around the house which helps it feel more like ours. We haven't made many changes to the outside, except I planted flowers at the edge of our driveway and this summer we even had a patio put in. We feel so grateful that we have been blessed with a beautiful house that we can call home.

Note: (Yes, I'm fat in this picture. But I was 8 Months Pregnant and that's my excuse!)

Note: (See the dead cactus thing? It looks a lot better with flowers)

Brooklyn Stands Alone

Brooklyn has been working on the skill of standing by herself. Here is a picture that I managed to take of her practicing. 

Brooklyn Gets her Ears Pierced

Last weekend Ricky and I decided that it was time to get Brooklyn's ears pierced. One of my friends little girls got hers done and it looked so cute. As we were walking into the mall I started having second thoughts about going through with it. But my brother Andrew kept saying just do it. So we walked over to Claire's and got it done. It was horrible at first, Brooklyn was screaming and I had all these people glaring at me like I was the meanest mom in the world for doing this to my daughter. But it went so quick and Brooklyn cried for a minute max. Once she got her sucker she was fine. I'm really glad that we got her ears pierce! She looks so cute and it seems like her earrings don't even bother her. If anyone else is debating about doing it or not, I highly recommend getting it done.